The following article was sent to me by a friend of mine who has lived in Turkey for the past twenty years. Though the situation in Turkey is cause for deep concern for all Americans, it is a proven axiom that awareness is the mother of defense. The article is long, but the profit for reading it through to the end is a deeper awareness that multi-culturalism, particularly the political correct notion that Sharia law should be tolerated or allowed in the USA, is the death knell of a free America. You probably haven't heard much of what you are about to read on the news since Americans have been consumed with our financial and government debt problems. My friend in Turkey is not an extremist. On the contrary, he would be considered a political "liberal" by many in the United States. When he becomes concerned, you can bet there is a real, serious problem in Turkey.
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by Donna Garner, August 1, 2011
While most of us have been focused on the U. S. debt ceiling and the serious implications for the world’s financial markets, meanwhile another country has just fallen to the Islamists: Turkey.
TURKEY FALLS TO ISLAMISTS
This last Thursday (7.29.11) Reuters News Service and the British Broadcasting Company broke the news that the Islamic Prime Minister of Turkey, Tayyip Erdogan, had seized control of the government and the military when Turkey's top four military commanders (secularists who have stood against Turkey becoming an Islamist state) resigned under pressure.
DISCREDITING MILITARY COMMANDERS
During the two years leading up to last Thursday, Erdogan and his AKP party have put over 400 people on trial in hearings dominated by Erdogan-appointed judges, including 250 military personnel (almost 10% of their military senior commanders).
More than 58 journalists have been detained without due process for speaking out about the Erdogan government.
On 7.25.11, The Committee to Protect Journalists sent a letter to the Turkish Minister of Justice protesting the detainments. The letter specifically objected to the seizure by the Turkish police of a draft of Ahmet Şık's unpublished book, The Imam's Army, that details the influence of Islamic scholar Fethullah Gulen on the Turkish state.
TURKISH PRIME MINISTER ERDOGAN A FOLLOWER OF FETHULLAH GULEN
Erdogan is a follower of Fethullah Gulen. Since Erdogan took over as Prime Minister in 2002, Gulen/Erdogan/AKP have allegedly orchestrated two trumped up plots called "Ergenekon" and "Sledgehammer."
FIRST REASON WHY AMERICA SHOULD BE WORRIED
The first reason that we Americans should be concerned about the Islamist coup in Turkey is that Turkey is a member of NATO; and on March 28, 2011, our own President, pro-Muslim Obama, placed our coalition military operations in Libya under NATO control.
SECOND REASON WHY AMERICA SHOULD BE WORRIED
Our second reason for concern is that Fethullah Gulen lives in Pennsylvania, runs his $25 billion international network from there, and is tied to hundreds of Gulen charter schools right here in the United States. (Texas alone has 36 of these Gulen charter schools.)
FETHULLAH GULEN BEHIND ENROGAN
GULENIST BELIEFS
Erdogan was elected in 2003 and was recently re-elected in June 2011 because working in clandestine operations with the Gulenists, he has been able to control and coerce the Turkish masses through fear.
What Gulenists want is total power and one-man rule; they want a status so that none could dare to object to them or to their leader, because they sincerely believe that Allah has chosen them to disseminate their brand of Turkish Islam to the world, and therefore that everything they do is right and without mistakes.
THE GULENIST PLOT TO OVERTHROW TURKEY
Prior to Gulen/AKP/Erdogan, Turkey was pro-America, pro-Israel, and pro-European. Turkey is one of 28 members of NATO but has the second-largest army.
Gulen/AKP/Erdogan have formed close alliances with Russia, Iran, Hamas, Hezbollah, and Syria.
Gulen controls a worldwide, $25 billion network of media, financial institutions, associations, and foundations.
Gulen is an Islamist imam who considers himself to be a prophet.
His sermons indicate that he intends for Turkey and the entire world to become Islamist and to follow Sharia law. He wants to establish a caliph and the re-establishment of the Ottoman Empire. Several years ago, Turkish television aired footage of Gulen saying:
You must move in the arteries of the system without anyone noticing your existence until you reach all the power centers…You must wait for the time when you are complete and conditions are ripe, until we can shoulder the entire world and carry it...The philosophy of our service is that we open a house somewhere and, with the patience of a spider, we lay our web to wait for people to get caught in the web…
In 1971 Gulen was arrested in Turkey for holding secret religious activities in which he ran illegal summer camps to indoctrinate youth.
Gulen has groomed his image to make him look as if he is a "tolerant" Muslim, but he is actually a follower of Sa'id-I Nursi, the founder of the Islamist Nur (light) movement.
Gulen/Nur intend for Islamists to take over the world and establish an Islamic caliphate that follows Sharia law.
Bill Clinton was President at the time. Bill and Hillary Clinton and the CIA welcomed Gulen and promoted him as being an outstanding scholar who represented a peaceful, "secular" form of Islam.
President George W. Bush took office in January 2001 and America experienced the radical Muslim terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001, the Bush administration (along with Karen Hughes who now promotes the Gulen charter schools) evidently wanted to appear to be "politically correct" and, therefore, fell for Gulen's lies.
Now the United States has a Muslim-friendly President in the White House who has appointed Dalia Mogahed as his Muslim advisor. Mogahed is a Gulenist.
GULEN'S LIFE IN AMERICA
Gulen lives in eastern Pennsylvania with 100 followers who guard him and tend to his needs. His male followers try to blend into American society by wearing suits and ties, and they do not marry until age 50. Their spouses are expected to dress in the Islamic manner as dictated by Gulen.
Gulen runs his international network from Pennsylvania, and he and his next-in-command (Nurettin Veren) say they control 75% of the schools and universities in Turkey plus hundreds of schools in 110 countries worldwide.
GULENIST-EDUCATED CHILDREN NOW IN HIGH PLACES
In an interview in 2008, Veren said, "Children whom we educated in Turkey are now in the highest positions. There are governors, judges, military officers. There are ministers in the government. They consult Gulen before doing anything."
Gullenists have also taken over the 200,000 Turkish police force. Veren said, "There are imam security directors; imams wearing police uniforms. Many police commissioners get their orders from imams."
Those in the police academies who were not Gulenists were dismissed, and the AKP promotes only those officers who are totally dedicated to Gulen.
8 Endogan ordered the arrests of the people who were speaking out against this Gulen takeover.
Turkish journalists have also had their wires tapped because the head of the police wiretapping unit is a Gulenist.
Anti-AKP demonstrators have experienced violent police brutality, and private citizens who have spoken out about Erdogan/AKP have been abducted and brutalized.
TURKISH INSTITUTIONS FALL TO GULENISTS
Traditionally, the Turkish military has been the guarantor of the Constitution; but now according to Veren (Gulen's top man), the Gulenists have entrenched themselves within the military also. Veren stated:
The Fethullahist military officers were once our students, who we financially supported, educated, and assisted. When these grateful children graduated and reached influential positions, they put themselves and their positions at the service of Fethullah Gulen…when Gulen students graduate from the police or military academies -- as do the new doctors and lawyers -- they present their first salaries to Fethullah Gulen as a gesture of their gratitude.
During Erdogan's ten year rule, his government has seized control of Sabah-ATV, which was Turkey's second largest media group. Then Erdogan made his son-in-law the CEO of the group.
Now nine of the leading TV, radio stations, and newspapers are all owned by AKP/Gulen.
It is no wonder that Erdogan won re-election in June 2011 since he and the AKP controlled most of the media, the military, the security forces, and the courts.
GULEN -- THREAT TO AMERICA
Homeland Security and the U. S. Citizenship and Immigration Service tried to deny Gulen permanent residence in the Unites States. In 2008 Gulen brought a lawsuit against Michael Chertoff of Homeland Security. The Department contended that Gulen did not meet the definition of a person with "extraordinary ability in the field of education" but that he was actually a "leader of a large and influential religious and political movement with immense commercial holdings." The State tried to prove that the acclaim that Gulen touted was actually sponsored or financed by his own movement.
SPREAD OF GULEN SCHOOLS IN TEXAS
In a bold move, the Gulen/Cosmos Foundation/Harmony Charter Schools have now branched out from their usual "math and science" venues into a brand new school to open soon in Austin, Texas.
This new Gulen school will be called the Harmony School of Political Science. This means that at taxpayers’ expense, Turkish teachers (many of whom are here on H-1 visas and are Muslims) will be teaching our students “American” history. Can you imagine how these teachers who can hardly speak English and are fresh from Turkey will present such historically significant elements as the Holocaust, the Founding Fathers, the Declaration of Independence, and the Constitution?
Yes, all teachers in Texas (including those in the Gulen schools) are to follow the state-approved curriculum requirements; but nothing constrains teachers from teaching those requirements with a particular political spin. Since almost all of the terrorists who have declared jihad against Americans are Muslims, then it should make us very skeptical about having Muslim teachers teach our Texas students to love, respect, and appreciate America.
ACTION STEP
A protest rally will be held on the public sidewalk in front of Harmony School of Political Science - Austin, Texas -- on Aug. 30, 2011, from 9:00 to 10:00 A. M.
People in the Austin area should definitely commit to be at the rally since this Harmony School of Political Science is being opened right there in your own city.
Please bring signs (without any wooden or metal stakes), wear T-shirts, display “sandwich-type” posters (affixed to front and back of body), or create other visual displays that are in line with the City of Austin laws (posted at bottom of this e-mail).
RESOURCES USED IN THIS PAPER
7.30.11 -- 7:57 AM (EDT) -- Reuters News Service -- "Analysis: Turkish Government Strengthens Control on Military" by Daren Butler -- Istanbul -- http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/07/30/us-turkey-military-analysis-idUSTRE76T0ZU20110730
7.30.11, 3:54 P. M. EDT -- Reuters News Service -- "Turkey's Leaders Deny Crisis as Top Generals Quit" by Simon Cameron-Moore -- Istanbul -- http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/07/30/us-turkey-military-idUSTRE76S70M20110730
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7.29.11, 17:29 ET -- British Broadcasting Company -- "Turkey: Military Chiefs Resign En Masse" -- http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-14346325
Winter 2009, pp. 55 - 66 -- The Middle East Quarterly -- “Fethullah Gülen's Grand Ambition: Turkey's Islamist Danger” by Rachel Sharon Krespin, director of the Turkish Media Project at the Middle East Media Research Institute (MEMRI), Washington D.C.
http://www.meforum.org/2045/fethullah-gulens-grand-ambition
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7.25.11 -- "Journalists Held Without Due Process in Turkey" -- Letter from Committee to Protect Journalists -- http://www.cpj.org/2011/07/cpj-concerned-about-secret-arrests-in-turkey.php
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12.16.10 -- British Broadcasting Company -- "Turkey Tries Army Officers Over Sledgehammer 'Plot'" -- by Jonathan Head -- Istanbul -- http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-12006352
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7.22.11 -- “Wrong Person Takes the Fall -- Another Gulen Situation” -- by Donna Garner
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http://turkishinvitations.weebly.com/list-of-us-schools.html
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7.17.11 -- “Another Turkish Charter School in Trouble” by Donna Garner --
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7.14.11 -- “How Blind Can People Be?” by Donna Garner --
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7.10.11 -- “Is a Changed Muslim Kosher in a Taxpayer-Funded Texas School” by Peyton Wolcott -- http://peytonwolcott.com/
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The Texas House General Investigating & Ethics Committee has begun its investigation of the Gulen Turkish charter schools (Cosmos Foundation, Harmony Schools, Rainbow Turkish House, etc.).
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7.10.11 -- “Are Taxpayers Paying for Free Trips to Turkey?” by Donna Garner --
http://libertylinked.com/posts/7714/are-taxpayers-paying-for-free/View.aspx
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6.19.11 -- Austin American-Statesman article by Laylan Copelin and Mike Ward, “Some Texas Lawmakers Have Second Thoughts about Turkey Trips” --
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6.29.11 -- Texas Legislature Investigating Gulen/Cosmos Foundation/Harmony Schools: http://libertylinked.com/posts/7624/tx-investigating-gulen/View.aspx
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6.30.11 -- “Personal Accounts: Gulen Harmony Schools” by Donna Garner
http://educationviews.org/2011/06/30/personal-accounts-gulen-harmony-schools/
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7.14.11 -- “Harmony Science Academies Tied to Gulen Charter Schools” by Donna Garner --http://libertylinked.com/posts/7744/harmony-science-academies/View.aspx
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“The Gulen Movement -- How It Operates in Turkey and in the U. S.” -- Parts 1, 2, 3 -- YouTube
